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Originally Posted by shakran
I completely and wholly disagree with the premise that students have no reasonable expectation to remain clothed at school. They have a reasonable expectation of privacy when it comes to exposing their body to whatever slackjawed staff member decides they want to see it, for whatever reason. Had I been in her shoes, I'd have told the school to cram it, and they'd have gotten my clothes off only by winning a physical confrontation.
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My post was a general->specific construction. I don't think there's any problem with searching backpacks and lockers at school-hence, broad constitutional question. If you notice, I agree that they screwed up by strip searching her, because they weren't going to find anything that posed any immediate risk.
My problems with this case are the incredibly extreme damages the girl is claiming and how you go about drawing the legal line between the general notion that students shouldn't have a reasonable expectation about privacy in school and what that allows school administrators to do.